Новости за 25.11.2017

If you were an Imgur user in 2014, you might want to consider changing your password. Yesterday, the photo-sharing site revealed (via Engadget) that it learned of a security breach in 2014 that compromised the e-mail addresses and passwords of approximately 1.7 million users.

My family and I went to Mexico last week, and it was great. Sunshine until 7PM is a miracle and does wonders for your seasonal depression. Anyway, my dad recently bought the water-resistant Samsung Galaxy S8, and given that I didn't pay for it, I asked him if I could take it into the pool with me to try and take a selfie. He ended up coming with me in an attempt to capture unique moments. I'm absolutely a believer in water-resistant phones now, to the point that I don't understand why Samsung... Читать дальше...

HBO’s The Deuce was one of my favorite new series this year. It wrapped up about a month ago, but I missed the finale by a week because I didn’t feel compelled to watch it right away — I assumed there were going to be more episodes, since the show was only seven episodes in and nowhere near a climax.

It’s been 17 years since Philip Pullman finished off his celebrated fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. In trilogy’s first installment, The Golden Compass, he introduced readers to Lyra Belacqua, a girl from a parallel world, who sets off to rescue a missing friend. It was an uncompromising story about religion, authority, and individual freedom that earned acclaim around the world. Now, Pullman has recently released his long-awaited followup, The Book of Dust. The first volume, La Belle Sauvage... Читать дальше...

Black Friday has already come and gone, but there’s still great deals you can pick up at major retailers including Amazon and Best Buy. If you missed our coverage, or didn’t get a chance to take advantage of the sales, we’ve roundup up our favorite 25 deals still in stock.

We’re about to enter the final weeks of 2017, and we’re all going to have to do something while waiting for Star Wars: The Last Jedi to come out. Sitting down to watch something from your streaming service of choice would seem to be a good option— but if you’re assuming there’s going to be an influx of treacly, holiday-themed specials, you’d be wrong. Instead, December is a month when a bunch of things you might actually want to watch are suddenly going to be available.

There’s plenty of research about coral reefs bleaching and dying because of warming ocean waters — but one group of researchers is more interested in knowing how corals live and grow. To do that, they’re creating 3D visualizations of coral reefs around the world.

Bloomberg has been keeping an eye on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ net worth and notes that today, for the first time, it has exceeded $100 billion. That’s 100,000,000,000 dollars. He was already definitively the richest person in the world after spending part of 2016 trading places with Bill Gates. Gates, by the way, was the last person to reach that stratospheric level of wealth, back in 1999.